In this interview, Annie Albagli speaks with Curator, Amanda Nudelman about We Become [Vessels] to expand on the themes of rituals, repetitions and collaborations, and how these can be used to build meaningful connections between one another and the environments we inhabit.
In a new interview in the Asylum Magazine, Avital Burg reflects on her time at the Peleh residency and how this focus on art, family, and caregiving had impacted her life and work.
This post continues our series of reflections from artists who were part of the residency.
The next chapter for Asylum Arts will include a home in Brooklyn, as part of the development of a new Jewish gathering place: The Neighborhood: An Urban Center for Jewish Life, with Asylum Arts Founder and Director Rebecca Guber taking on the Founding Director role.
For Passover 2021, Asylum’s Betsy Medvedovsky collaborated with Katya Apekina to create Exodus 2021, a self-guided audio tour of the Jewish exodus from Egypt set in Highland Park, Los Angeles. The tour follows the Passover story from Moses’ point of view and includes audio works by eight local artists.
In this feature, Betsy and Katya interview each other about walking their dogs, being Russian-Jewish on the Eastside of LA, the Situationists, and how these experiences led them to create Exodus 2021 together.
